Local Municipal Manager

LS Rampedi

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The Municipal Manager of Polokwane Municipality, Mr Leshabe Rampedi holds a BCom (Accounting) degree from the University of Western Cape, a Masters degree in Development offered by the University of the North at Edupark and has completed a Senior Executive program with the Harvard Business School. He has also completed various programmes with the Wits Business School, including Corporate Communications and Doing Business in Asia. The Municipal Manager started his career at Consol, an Anglo American Company. He then joined the foreign exchange division at Standard Bank, and taught for a year before joining the University of the North as an accountant for three years.

He joined the Office of the Premier in 1994 as the Premier's Executive Assistant and later worked as Head of Ministerial services including Cabinet Secretariat. He was later promoted to Head Planning and Special Transformation programmes.

In 2000, he was promoted to Deputy Director General now known as Senior General Manager responsible for Provincial Strategy and Policy Management.

While in the Premier's Office, he also served in the National Government Committee resting on International Relations and was also responsible for Limpopo Provinces' International Twinning agreements and Investment promotions.

He joined Polokwane Municipality in April 2002. Amongst his other strategic management duties, the Municipal Manager is the overall accounting officer in the Municipality. He is responsible for the implementation of the Municipality's four main objectives, namely, the provision of basic services, local economic development, empowerment of communities as well as the transformation of Municipal structures.

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